Don't know what course to do

DigForVictory

To the library!
Honestly. These folks have ideas for a living, internet access for backup and books you can read for greater understanding without needing mains electricity.

Without suggesting you write a superhero tale and thus exhume from your unconscious what you really want to be able do brilliantly, do have a good root through the fantasy section as well as the employment, careers, & biographies. As a lot of jobs exist that didn't exist 30 years ago (I haven't yet heard "I want to be a spin-doctor" but give it time), librarians will be more aware of what's new that traditional careers guidance hasn't quite caught up with.

As another path towards enlightenment, list out every job you can think of. Then reward every person who can add a new job to your list (bonus point if they can identify a relevant qualifying body, double if they can find the weblink) and see if the jobs you hadn't thought of merit further investigation.

I recently sat in on a Mid Career workshop run by the union, which handed out flashcards of abilities & skills & asked you to put them into 4 columns Excel at, Good at, Pass at, Need to work at. It formed interesting clumps around ideas, people, things, etc which you might find useful.

If you can find a passion, brilliant. If you can't, but can find something that scores higher satisfaction, that'll do? All the very best!

morganedge

OP- You any good at IT?

I briefly met someone last night who apparently is a 'technical architecht?''
(again, another example of a job I didn't know existed and had never heard of)

He was young(ish) and LOADED! I'm talking, borderline rich judging by his house, car and gadgets.
He was using words like VMware as part of his job. (never heard of that, personally)

He has his fingers in a few other pie from what I gather, but he said that was his main job.

Do whatever he does! Maybe there's a course somewhere???!

Blackpool_Saver

http://www.vmware.com/uk/training/

Hmmm, interesting

SJI85

jimmy2times wrote: »

Professional spell-checker actually sounds like a job I wouldn't mind doing! Don't think it exists, though.

Proofreaders do.

trailingspouse

Is there the possibility of moving on up within the place you already work? You've put in the time, you must have a pretty good idea of how it all works - supervisor, forman, sales rep? You've got 10 years of experience, it seems a shame to waste it.

FBaby

You must have some interests though. You mentioned football, maybe travelling? One good start would be to see what realistic studies/career you could take on related to your interests. It doesn't have to be directly related, but have some relation to it. For instance, what is it about football you like? The actual adrenalin of playing it (then maybe look at something that involves a bit of daring), or the excitment of betting after doing research/applying statistics (then maybe a career that involved research and deduction or it is the crowd and buzzing atmosphere (maybe looking at jobs that involves dealing the public) etc...

double_mummy

what about travelling and teaching english as a second language or doing it without the travelling? or teaching adults english all you need is a PTTLS or TEFL

jimmy2times

SJI85 wrote: »

Proofreaders do.

I'm gonna search my local job sites now.

trailingspouse wrote: »

Is there the possibility of moving on up within the place you already work? You've put in the time, you must have a pretty good idea of how it all works - supervisor, forman, sales rep? You've got 10 years of experience, it seems a shame to waste it.

No. I haven't spent 10 years at one company. I've been temping mainly, on-and-off at various minimum wage jobs, usually just warehouse and factory work.

Thanks for everyones posts. I'd kind of forgotten about this thread.

Unfortunately, i'm still no further along.

Sncjw

What about vision 2 learn I'm doing a course now. Business and admin would be good it's a level 2 so gcse level and be good if it has funding. It might be a starting point, I'm looking to do that after this course just to have something behind me due to career change.

List what your good at and see of there's a job with that involved.

Look for a job with those skills and see what qualifications you need. It's a case of working backwards to go forwards

jimmy2times

Sncjw wrote: »

List what your good at and see of there's a job with that involved.

Look for a job with those skills and see what qualifications you need. It's a case of working backwards to go forwards

I've tried going this route. Various tests on career type sites etc.
It never gets me anywhere. I say that I like animals and it then suggests I become a vet! lol.
I don't have any stand-out skills to get the ball rolling / ideas flowing

I already have GCSE'S.
I think I need to think of either a 'trade' that can be learnt quickly(ish),
or I need to take some sort of course that gives me a specific skill to land a certain job within an office (say, payroll for example?)

I feel as though I need LOADS more ideas, though, as I can't think of many.

I think one day someone's gonna suggest a course that I didn't know existed and i'll know upon hearing it that it's a decent fit.